Where do Intra-day Traders keep their money?

Lets say you keep a minimal amount to cover margins in your brokerage account(s).

Where do you put the rest?

Money Market, bank accounts, long term stocks/funds, gold/silver, other business ventures, real estate, land

Interested in what others do?

 

At the grocery store till. The vast majority make less than someone flipping burgers

 

I thought we're all Elite Traders though

 

in the bags...eye bags

 

I constantly swap from brokers and bank accounts.

When things are going well, I transfer back to banks.

When things are not doing well, I fund from the banks.

Trade options using good leverage so works for me and at the same time I minimize the risk of having my capital in non FDIC insured institutions like brokers.

When the dow is quite below the 200 daily MA, I like to swap a bit from the banks into long term DIA.

 

Anyone here use treasuries as deposits and get credit for 90% of face value? Then if broker goes belly up at least you have still have treasuries? I read somewhere you can do that , could someone elaborate? Important to have your name on the treasuries instead of "street name" ?

I really don't know that much about treasuries , bonds, or the like. So looking for someone more familiar to chime in.